Rookie Salaries

Just how bad do young MLB players get paid? Just ask Angel's OF Reggie Willits, who lived inside of a batting cage with his family for four years.

"The pitching machine, the weight room and the master bedroom are clustered together. "I did put in one wall," Reggie said.

When he wants to bat, he pushes aside the sofas to form his personal playing field. He steps inside the net, suspended from the ceiling. If Amber is busy, he hits off a tee.

If she is free, she feeds balls into the pitching machine. Amber stands behind an L-screen, the kind used to protect batting-practice pitchers. Still, line drives sometimes rip through the screen.

"I know she's taken a few in the helmet," said Mickey Hatcher, the Angels' hitting coach. "But that's part of the game."

To his credit, however, Reggie does own the batting cage free and clear of any mortgage.